🌊 Offshore wind farm

Moray East
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 100 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

100
turbines
950 MW
MW total
9.5 MW
per turbine
204 m
tip height

📍 100 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 58.18254 N · 2.72409 W.

Moray East

100 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines100
Installed capacity950 MW
Turbine capacity9.5 MW
Tip height204 m
Operator (or applicant)Diamond Green Limited, CTG & Ocean Winds
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV164-9.5
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Vestas · V164-9.5 · 100 turbines · 9.5 MW each · hub 105 m · rotor 164 m

Source: Tethys (PNNL, U.S. DOE), 2025-05-16, read on 2026-09-14. Corroborated by 1 further source. Where OpenStreetMap tags differ, this record prevails.

✓ Independently confirmed on 2026-09-19 by Wikipedia, list of offshore wind farms worldwide: 100 MHI Vestas V164-9.5, 950 MW, 2022.

♻️ Project timeline

Dated milestones from the UK Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Q2 2026 — not estimates.

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  1. 1Aug 2012 — Application submitted
  2. 2Mar 2014 — Permission granted
  3. 3Mar 2018 — Permission expired
  4. 4Jun 2019 — Under construction
  5. 5Apr 2022 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 10 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2534.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 19 months. Construction to first power took about 34 months. A planning permission on this site expired in March 2018. The scheme has been operating for about 4 years. That works out at 9.5 MW per turbine on average.

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Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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